Belgacom is comfortably ensconced in its domestic consumer market and is seeing success with its IPTV offer, but cable players remain a significant threat to the Belgian incumbent in the ...

Yahoo! has been under scrutiny with Microsoft failing to buy it. Its mobile initiatives were in overdrive for the first half of 2008 as the company tried to catch up ...

Nortel has become aggressive on 40G/100G by via its Adaptive Optical Engine solution. While putting the framework in place is important, now Nortel must demonstrate that it can turn 40G/100G ...

Wind develops its mobile business with a focus on customer retention, driving usage and exploiting its HSPA network. Whilst the Noi portfolio of converged services continues to perform, Wind ...

KPN is delivering on its domestic business plan based on broadband, IP and a push into ICT, but its dominance of the national enterprise market will be challenged by ongoing ...

TDC has shifted its focus to targeting pan-Nordic enterprises alongside maintaining its established incumbent domestic activities. However, TDC remains fairly silent on enterprise mobility, giving competitors an edge in ...

Sun continues to mature its open source offerings and it has begun to augment them with commercial versions. Its partnership with Accenture is also allowing Sun to deliver much ...

COLT must continue to raise brand awareness with corporates while reaffirming operational stability and a deserved reputation for reliable local service and support, significant competitive differentiators for the operator in ...

Huawei's increasing involvement in standardization efforts should bolster its reputation as world-class optical vendor. However, whether Huawei's effort will result in a coveted win in the North American carrier market ...

An enigma in the optical market, ZTE dedicates almost no effort toward casting itself as an optical vendor. Yet the vendor seeks to become the world's number three optical supplier ...

As Alcatel-Lucent's struggles wear on, its optical division remains a star, posting strong revenue growth in both terrestrial and submarine networking. Additionally, expected product portfolio enhancements should only bolster its ...

France Telecom is the clear market leader in the French enterprise sector, and its scale, market entrenchment and fixed and wireless assets provide a bulwark against the increasing domestic competition ...

ShoreTel is on the move on the applications front, with partnerships shoring up its capabilities in areas such as UC and FMC. Still, its distributed solutions architecture will remain its ...

To date in 2008, Global Crossing has looked toward tactical upgrades and improvements in its operations, as always targeting global companies with high value at good prices. VoIP, Ethernet, IP ...

Making adjustments to better compete in a constantly evolving hosted telephony application server market, BroadSoft is opening up its technology to a universe of developers of business and personal applications. ...

With revenues approaching $100 billion, IBM remains the industry giant. Though its capabilities encompass data integration, database, business intelligence, hardware, and professional services it also has a very large cadre ...

TeliaSonera remains focused on driving results, recording growth in customers, revenues and usage, but competition across the company's traditional European footprint remains intense, leaving it to look to elsewhere for ...

Red Hat continues to build out its JBoss middleware offerings, adding a complete SOA suite and tooling solution, acquiring a professional services organization and initiating SOA governance open source projects. ...

Tele2 continues to refocus on its mobile network presence with further divestments and new Russian licenses. But the strategy of price leadership and simplicity is under scrutiny and costs are ...

Telenor continues to chase contract customers and relies on market segmentation to drive growth and reduce churn. However the Nordic market remains highly competitive and despite new services, margins and ...